Running Back to Ludie [Paperback]

Angela Johnson (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Scholastic (2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 043941900X
• ISBN-13: 978-0439419000
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,742,155 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Angela Johnson is the author of the Coretta Scott King Honor picture book When I Am Old with You; as well as A Sweet Smell of Roses, illustrated by Eric Velasquez; Just Like Josh Gibson, illustrated by Beth Peck; and I Dream of Trains, which was also illustrated by Loren Long. She has won three Coretta Scott King Awards, one each for her novels Heaven, Toning the Sweep, and The First Part Last. In recognition of her outstanding talent, Angela was named a 2003 MacArthur Fellow. She lives in Kent, Ohio.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Running Backm to Ludie., July 12, 2004

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This review is from: Running Back To Ludie (Hardcover)

RUNNING BACK TO LUDIE is a coming-of-age story about a girl who wants to find herself by finding her mother written in short poems.

A young girl is growing up, separated from her mother. She has only childhood memories and a video of her mother, Ludie. Living with her father and her Aunt Lucille, the girl is confused and wants to know more about her mother. She feels as if she has a hole in her life. She misses Ludie, wonders where her mother is and if they look alike. One day a letter comes from Ludie. Should the girl contact her? Should she go see her mother who she has never known? What will her aunt and her father decide? And how will her life change if her mother becomes a part of it?

The answers to all these questions and more can be found in the moving poems of RUNNING BACK TO LUDIE.

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